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Asian Politics
Interviews with scholars of Asian Politics about their new books
August 16, 2026
Asianism and the Fall of Empire
Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom (University of California Press, …
August 13, 2026
The Last Emperor of China
The life of Puyi, the last emperor of China, often feels like a spectacle—in no small part due to the 1987 Oscar-winning film The Last Emperor. Yet th…
August 8, 2026
Hiroshima's Last Witnesses and Japan's Nuclear Future
M. G. Sheftall has lived in Japan since 1987. He has a PhD in international relations and modern Japanese history from Waseda University in Tokyo. S…
August 6, 2026
Inside Parties
Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness (Cambridge UP, 2025) by Georgia Kernell examines how party rules determine how par…
August 2, 2026
Pandemic Politics in Central Asia
Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion (Routledge, 2026) examines how the authoritarian regimes of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and U…
July 30, 2026
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm
How do authoritarian regimes silence critics across borders? And what are the repressive tools and strategies that authoritarian regimes use transnati…
July 3, 2026
Islam and Maoism in Southern Yunnan
Islam and Maoism in Southern Yunnan: State Violence and Resistance, 1949–2024 (Cornell University Press, 2026) by Dr. Xian Aubin Wang investigates …
June 23, 2026
Infrastructure, Nickel, and the Politics of Polyalignment in Indonesia
Indonesia is often framed as a key arena of China-Japan-US competition in the Second Cold War. In this episode, we talk with Trissia Wijaya about her …
June 17, 2026
Meiji Graves in Happy Valley
The connections between Hong Kong and Japan began far earlier than many realise. Yet only recently has Hong Kong’s historic Japanese community receive…
June 3, 2026
The Making of China's Post Office
How did a vast, nationwide institution like a modern postal system come into being in Qing China — right at the very end of the empire? In The Maki…
May 21, 2026
Safe Passage
In October 1943, the Gripsholm—a Swedish ocean liner—and the Teia Maru—a Japanese troop ship—sat in Mormugao, a port in Portuguese India. There, the t…
May 18, 2026
Taiwan
While most English-language histories of Taiwan focus on its geopolitical role, Taiwan: A People’s History (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Evan N. Dawley cent…
May 16, 2026
Cold War Comrades
In this major new interpretation of Sino-North Korean relations, Dr. Gregg A. Brazinsky argues that neither the PRC nor the DPRK would have survived a…
May 14, 2026
The Unfinished Quest
From a Distinguished International Relations Scholar comes The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (Oxford UP, …
May 10, 2026
Age of Disaffection
The 1960s in Japan have long been understood as a period of radical political engagement. But as political movements from Old Left Communism to New Le…
May 6, 2026
The Taiwan Tinderbox
J. Michael Cole is a Taipei-based security analyst and writer who has spent over two decades documenting Taiwan’s political and security landscape. A …
April 15, 2026
Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters
Daniel A. Bell joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and …
April 15, 2026
The Unruly Dead
“What might it mean to take the dead seriously as political actors?” asks Lia Kent in this exciting new contribution to critical human rights scholars…
April 14, 2026
Revolutions
Revolutions: A New History (Verso Books, 2025) is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms…
April 3, 2026
Property of the People
"Honoured Investors, As Zhongfu Group enters its eighth decade, we are pleased to announce the acquisition of two famous coal mines. These assets fur…